27 July 1984 Brighton LPYS National TGWU on the march.
Bases Youth CND as well.
ning an representatives Youth movement, the peace movement, leadership national committee member and activities.
SUPPORT FOR the Youth CND 'Bases Tour of '84' is growing fast.
unions like the FBU, have taken publicity material. The NUM keeps writing to ask for more, and we hope to have lots of young miners The slogans of the march - 'No US Jobs not Bombs' — clearly links the fight of the miners and the fight against nukes. We've proved that by doing so we can build support for Meetings en route of the march will have guest speakers and cover many of the issues facing us today. We are plan Raily the Sandinista women from the in Comiso, youth from peace organisations and, of miners. Other meetings society. nanned wil be about women and the support for the miners, and the fight against racism. LPYS members on the Youth CND Call national committee are hoping the YS that will march fully. Youth CND is organising a stall at YS summer camp with posters, badges, and march publicity and will be supplying a speaker for the official meeting on joint YS and Youth CND In the Southern Region the LPYS has agreed to distribute march publicity in their regional mailing. The LPYS is to have a speaker at the carnival on 19 August. We hope that from now on the LPYS will play a full role in building Youth CND instead of abstaining and maintaining the abstract position 'we will only achieve disarmament through socialism' — which like it or not has cut the YS off from thousands of youth in the past few years.
If we are to win CND across to a labour movement orientation and away from its present 'new realist' line we'll need the active support of the left in the Labour Party and the unions. The first step is to prove that the Youth CND march concentrating on US bases and Jobs not Bombs, can be a success. We wetu lo prove inere Is an alterialive, a way forward for CND that will take it into the most oppressed sectors of our The LPYS has a role to play in this If it takes up the struggles of youth it become mass campaigning organisation. From all points of vier the Bases Tour of '84' and the carnival welcome it, al c vital deserve the support of the whole labour movement - YS included!
gets too left. ine idea he party has. oing or YS to get on t no form of jolicy and and map out the outh 'YS solves umbers in the Idress itself. Such , sectarian upport and cism, gay liberation in. Campaigns e position of the left in of young people to ble of beginning to plays an active part in in the LPYS. sections. has all too often been ignored.
own campaigning politics. a mass campaigning Labour Party Young Socialists. other international issues which have received increasing support from youth Ireland, the campaign against Reagan's war urave in Central America and bulletins and caucuses at national Young Socialists events around such things as defense of the political levy, support for the demands of the winning the demands of the Women's Action Committee and building black solidarity with the miners, defending the cities, defending the political levy, Labour is to have the kind of campaigning youth wing it needs. youth organisation and to begin to build up the links that will be necessary if open letter has been to open the debate about the way forward for Labour's these activists and deepen our links with the rest of the left. The aim of this The left wing of the party has been throwing itself into activities such as A discussion has begun about launching a national journal to organise But the important task of building up Labour's youth organisation young people. The left must break with this and win the LPYS over to its leadership cutting it off from tapping the huge potential which exists among Instead narrow and sectarian politics have been pursued by the LPYS We appeal to the left at all levels of the party to join with us in building VOTE Jim Thakoordin, Paul Sharma, Mark Wadsworth and Billy Poh at a black section press conference.